Biography
J. B. Childs was from Los Angeles. J. B. Childs received a four-year prison sentence, which he served in San Quentin from July 12, 1923, until his term expired. Four months into his term at San Quentin, on November 16, Childs was beaten by a guard so severely that his head required four stitches; both his arms were "discolored, " and one of them bore a "deep cut." To protest the guard's brutality toward Childs, seventy-one IWW prisoners launched a work strike. They were all subsequently put "in solitary confinement on bread and water."
The International Labor Defense holiday roster in the December 29, 1925 Daily Worker lists this prisoner, printed as J. B. Childs, at San Quentin California. Its printed identifier is 38109; this is a prison number or mailing designation, not a year or a custody date. This documents confinement at the roster’s reporting time, without establishing an admission, transfer, release, new conviction or complete duration. Existing independently sourced custody chronology remains separate. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1925/1925-ny/v02b-n297-NYE-dec-29-1925-DW-LOC.pdf#page=5
The February 26, 1924 Daily Worker political-prisoner roster individually prints J. B. Childs with historical prisoner number 38110. The entry appears under San Quentin State Prison, California. This is a contemporary institutional identifier, not a federal BOP register number. No admission or release date, individual sentence length, actual duration, organizational membership or present status is inferred.
The Daily Worker political-prisoner Christmas roster of December 17, 1924, lists J. B. Childs at San Quentin State Prison with historical prisoner number 38109. This establishes a contemporary custody observation, not an admission or release date and not a total duration. Its printed number differs from the existing identifier; the existing identifier is preserved pending reconciliation.
